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I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein